Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 325, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1928 — Page 9

MAT 11, 1928.

27.000 BATTLE AGAINST WAGE CUTJNMILLS Poorly Paid Workers Go on Orderly Strike in New England. Twenty-seven thousand textile workers are on strike at New Bedford. Mass against a 10 per cent wage reduction! Hortense Saunders went to New Bedford for NBA Service and The Times to find out the circumstances of this big labor battle. Here is the first two stories she has written. BY HORTENSE SAUNDERS NEA Service Writer NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 11. —Joseph Albino, who until recently worked in one of the New Bedford cotton mills, has a wife and nine children to support on nothing a week, just now. He is one of the 27,000 textile workers on strike here. His rent is $3.50 a week for four rooms, kept very clean and neat by Mrs. Albino. Mrs. Albino is 44, and has eleven living children. Two daughters are married, and worked in the mills before the strike. Manuel, 16, the oldest of the nine children living at home, is old enough to work in the mills, but he too Is on strike. Joseph Albino never has earned a very large salary. Last winter, , when he frequently was laid oil, he averaged sl4 a week. When the daughters were employed, they helped their parents. Now the daughters are dependent upon various relief agencies of the town. Majority Live Comfortably The Albino family presents just one of a great many very interesting human cases in the New Bedford strike. The Albinos seem somewhat harder hit than the average. Here are 27,000 workers with their income cut off. Few of them earned, while working, more than S2O a week. Yet the strikers generally are reasonably well clothed, have fairly comfortable places In which to live, and seem happy as they go about their battling against a 10 per cent wage reduction. “They never had much, so they manage now to get along on very little without seeming to suffer greatly,” New Bedford people explain. The Washington Club, a workingman's social club, gives away bread and soup three times a week to all children of the strikers who come. It usually distributes around 1,800 loaves of bread and hundreds of gallons of soup. Fairly well dressed children call for this, the little boys with mackinaw coats and knickers, good shoes and stockings, and little girls with fur-collared coats, new hats and flowers on their shoulders. Drew Small Allowance Out of the 27,000 workers about 7,000 belong to the American Federation of Textile Operators, the local union, and draw a small allowance ranging from $5 to $7 a week. Lawyers, clergymen, and publicspirited citizens have organized the Citizens Relief, which is aiding jobless throngs. Cooperative buying is lowering cost, and many grocers and shopkeepers are donating supplies. New Bedford people call the strike the “best managed and most orderly” they ever saw. It is the first important strike here in eight years. It is no revolt against factory conditions, which are admitted to be satisfactory, but is solely a protest against a 10 per cent cut in wages. Such a cut already Is In effect In almost every other textile center in New England. Employ Only Skilled Workers The finest cotton textiles of the country are made here, and naturally the most skilled operators are required. Os the New Bedford strikers, the majority are English, French Canadian, Portuguese and Polish. The English are from Lancastershire, England, where they worked in the British mills, and they retain their broad English accent. There are about sixty mill units in New Bedford, and all but about fifteen are shut down. These fifteen are continuing to pay the old scale of wages. There has been no effort to bring In strikebreakers. Efforts of so-called “radical” leaders to take over direction of the strike have caused some trouble, but it has not become critical.

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